The script hangs and freezes in my browser, even on the tutorial page. I get the wait/stop script prompt every time I reload it. I'm using Firefox 3/Ubuntu.
I use jQuery. I only briefly checked out prototype before I found jQuery, and I don't remember anything about it. Like most of us, I got tired of using the same thing over and over so I checked out MooTools and didn't like that it had all sorts of $chk- and $empty-like identifiers, but otherwise it's a solid library. I ended up sticking with jQuery because it's what I like and what I know the best.
Did teachers in the 1950's feel the same way about Caulfield as teachers feel now about Potter? I'm sure they did, and I'm just as sure that in 2050 Potter will be just as dated children will have just as much trouble relating.
Why is everyone jumping on this as a negative? Goto isn't inherently evil. Of course in most cases there is a construct that would be a better fit than goto, but it does have its uses. As far as readability goes, odds are a programmer isn't going to be jumping to a label 300 lines up, its used mostly to break out of nested loops and to simulate stuff like state machines. Check out http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html
People can actually jam debatably useful things in the tweet limit. If not useful, amusing. Check out http://twitto.org - a PHP framework that fits in a tweet.
I actually preferred CakePHP to CodeIgniter, and really only on the basis of aesthetics. I don't like This_Case :( I was going to say Catalyst, but Mojo looks way cooler. If I were you I'd give it a try
The take on web 3.0 is interesting, at least it's not full of crazy shit like the people who talk about the internet becoming the operating system and localized storage becoming completely useless
Cool, a blog post linking to a blog post. Even then it has nothing to do with programming a Twitter client, it's about how to use NetNewsWire to read tweets, which is at least kind of cool I guess
How would they? The main reason I use RSS is so I can see the whole article, not a Twitter-sized blurb of the article. That feed actually seems a lot like HN and Reddit, where it aggregates headlines and links, and provides comments.
Just signed up, and from browsing the message boards, there are some genuinely skilled and interesting people on there even though the activity level isn't very high. Maybe I'll get some work
Why is it that people hate active whitespace? I think it's great that the parser can detect where blocks end just by maintaining a nice code structure. I guess people are just against it on principle? Just in edge cases where indenting wouldn't make sense?
You could end up using it for a lot more things than just a todo list, you could probably hack it up for using queues in a shell script or something. It's all about utility
The only neat idea from the article was using rel="clickable" for doing inline ajax editables, makes a lot more sense than adding a class. Everything else was kind of fluff.
I would absolutely use this if it was more generalized and usable with other languages. I wonder how hard it would be to make it work with other braced syntax languages?
I'm not going to ditch Blueprint for it - I like being able to columnize very easily, and it's not a pain to change column size/number - but Blueprint (and 960gs) could definitely take some ideas from this, like not being redundant.
The Origin mimic parallel to Io's Object clone seems like it was named like that only because he didn't want to use Io's semantics verbatim, which results in it reading awkwardly. Just use Object clone >:[ Otherwise, a very cool project